Collitrone Door

The Porta Collitrone (Collitrone Door) in Toffia is one of the three gates to the town center. On the south-western side of the town, in a point strategically impregnable as the tip of the rocky outcrop on which Toffia was built, Porta Collitrone is now also accessible by car, through a newly built ring road on the west side of the town.

Local elderly laidies are used to tell, today, that in their youth was normal and conventional to go down the ditch to wash the clothes, in summer and in winter, from Porta Collitrone, through the ancient connection paths used for centuries by the people in everyday life – “… the problem was not descending or washing them, but back up with wet cloths and the basket on the head, while water drained on you … “– you can leave the town going down through both the paths.

Porta Collitrone surely deserves a visit – better if walking along the little alleys and peripheral historical center of Toffia- because it offers visitors a captivating view of the Valley of Farfa, the monumental complex of the former Franciscan monastery of St. Alexander in the rocky Town of Mompeo, from Fara Sabina to the Ugonesca Tower in Montopoli.